Watch Dennis Kucinich Awkwardly Growl, Quote ‘Top Pop Philosopher’ Bruno Mars in Wacky Interview
Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich had a unique response to one of his primary opponents Friday night.
The former congressman, who was previously a Fox News contributor, is in a tough primary battle and one of his opponents, Richard Cordray, went after him for his previous employment at the network.
“He knows the game he was playing. He’s brought on so that they say that they’re fair and balanced,” Cordray told a reporter. “He’s their house poodle. That’s exactly what it was. He played the game, he took their money. He made his choices.”
When Shannon Bream asked for his reaction, Kucinich literally growled. Followed by nearly ten seconds awkward silence.
“That’s your response?” Bream broke the silence. “Okay, we’ll go with that.”
The Fox News anchor then asked Kucinich to respond to critics who blasted his praise for President Trump, appearing on the Russian-funded network RT, his easy treatment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and for his “funky baggage.”
And perhaps in an attempt to earn the youth vote, he tried dropping some cool lingo by quoting a “top pop philosopher.”
“Well first of all, let me address the last point that you made, quoting one of the top pop philosophers, Bruno Mars, ‘Uptown funk won’t give it to you,'” Kucinich told a giggling Bream. “I’m straight from the shoulder. I work for peace. I interviewed president Assad for Fox. Anyone who watches that interview will know there wasn’t a game of patty cake going on there. There were serious questions about chemical weapons and the direction he intended to take Syria.”
Kucinich insisted that Tuesday’s primary should be “focused on things that are related to Ohio” like jobs, healthcare, and infrastructure.
“These are all things people care about. But the effort to try to change the subject is a clue that the campaign is really in trouble,” Kucinich continued. “My approach is to embrace the potential of the state, which by the way includes not just Democrats but Republicans and independents as well. And so I think one of the reasons why I can win the general election, because I don’t polarize, I don’t disrespect people because they happen to be a different party or different political philosophy. If you look at that American eagle over the canopy of the House of Representatives, it has a left and right wing and it needs two wings to fly.”
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
